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Deployment Modes for Partner Applications

There are two relevant Siebel partner applications, Siebel Partner Manager and Siebel Partner Portal. Siebel Partner Manager is an employee application that is used by channel and alliance professionals to administer and manage their partner base. Because Siebel Partner Manager is only meant for the employees, it only supports high interactivity mode. Siebel Partner Portal is an application for partner users. It supports both standard interactivity mode and high interactivity mode. It is strongly recommended that customers run Siebel Partner Portal in standard interactivity mode, because it supports the broadest set of internet browsers and client operating systems, thereby allowing a customer's entire partner base to access the Partner Portal.

However, if a customer has a dedicated (exclusive) partner network and can require its partners to standardize on more stringent high interactivity mode requirements (specific browsers, operating systems, and java virtual machines), then deploying Siebel Partner Portal in high interactivity mode may be a viable option. See the appropriate deployment mode section for addition information on client requirements.

There are exceptions to Siebel Partner Portal's support of both standard interactivity (SI) mode and high interactivity (HI) mode for some vertical applications as shown in Table 9.